You do know that very few politicians - including President Obama - deliver speeches in American Standard English, right? They're actually speaking Formal Written English.
American Standard English is, like Formal Written English, a written dialect more than a spoken one. Almost no-one speaks it casually, they use it for delivery (interviews, education, things like that)
Most of us - very certainly including you - speak some variety of dialect or "vernacular." These can stem from any number of sources - regional, racial, or even professional (the Army, fishermen, and truckers all have their own distinct varieties!) Hell, there's even a gendered dialect / pidgin, Yeshivlish, which is a mix of English, Hebrew, and Yiddish spoken mostly by male Yeshiva students in the US.
Rachel speaks just fine (oh, I'm sorry, I mean "perfectly well" :eyes
and as witnesses in a trial are to speak in their own words, for her to go up and suddenly break out like she's reading from a Houghton-Mifflin standard edition grammar textbook would be very strange, and to have a problem with her not doing so is fucking deranged.
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